general

Census ACS

The American Community Survey (ACS) is the U.S. Census Bureau’s program for collecting and disseminating demographic, socioeconomic, and housing data through an annual nationwide survey of a sample of households.
Estimates representative of the entire population are reported based on the data collected from the sample. SANDAG applies these figures to our population estimates to derive data for local geographic areas every
five years starting with 2010.

Group Quarters Population

All persons not living in households. Includes both institutional (e.g., nursing homes, hospitals, and prisons) and noninstitutional (e.g., college dormitories, military barracks, and workers' dormitories) settings.

Household

A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.

Household Population

All persons living in a household (an occupied housing unit).

Housing Unit

A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.

Occupied Housing Units

Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.

Persons per Household

The average number of persons living in a housing unit, calculated by dividing the household population by the number of occupied housing units.

Population

Total number of persons (residents) in an area.

Vacant

A unit in which no one is living, unless its occupants are only temporarily absent. Units temporarily occupied entirely by people who have a usual residence elsewhere are also classified as vacant.

Population

Disability Status

Disability

A long-lasting physical, mental, or emotional condition making it difficult for a person to do activities such as walking, climbing stairs, dressing, bathing, learning, or remembering. May also impede a person from being able to go outside the home alone or to work at a job or business.

Earnings

Earnings

The sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. The amount of income received regularly before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc.

Household

A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.

Income

Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.

Interest, Dividend, or Net Rental Income

Interest on savings or bonds, dividends from stockholdings or membership in associations, net income from rental of property to others and receipts from boarders or lodgers, net royalties, and periodic payments from an estate or trust fund.

Public Assistance

General assistance and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).

Self-Employment

Farm (net money income from the operation of a farm by a person on his or her own account, as an owner, renter, or sharecropper) and nonfarm (net money income receipts from one’s own business, professional enterprise, or partnership) self-employment income.

Social Security

Social security pensions and survivors benefits, permanent disability insurance payments made by the Social Security Administration prior to deductions for medical insurance, and railroad retirement insurance checks from the U.S. government.

Supplemental Security Income

Income from U.S. assistance program administered by the Social Security Administration that guarantees a minimum level of income for needy aged, blind, or disabled individuals.

Wage and Salary

Total money earnings received for work performed as an employee during the calendar year 1999.

School Enrollment

Ethnicity

American Indian

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment.

Asian

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Black or African American

A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

Ethnicity

Classification of population into four mutually exclusive ethnic groups (Hispanic, White, Black, and Asian) based on a combination of responses to two questions on the 1990 Census form concerning Hispanic origin and race.

Hispanic

Persons who identify themselves as Hispanic/Latino or of Spanish origin. People of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicate their race as "Native Hawaiian," "Guamanian or Chamorro," "Samoan," and "Other Pacific Islander."

Other

Includes all other responses not included in the "White," "Black or African American," and "Asian," race categories.

Population

Total number of persons (residents) in an area.

Race

Self-identification by people according to the race or races with which they most closely identify.

Some Other Race

Includes all other responses not included in the "White," "Black or African American," "American Indian or Alaska Native," "Asian," and "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander" race categories.

Tenure

Refers to owner-occupied vs. renter-occupied housing units.

Two or More Races

Refers to combinations of two or more of following race categories White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, Some other race.

White

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

Household Income

Household Income

Total pre-tax annual income of all members of a household.

Income

Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.

Single Family

Income Detail

Household

A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.

Household Income

Total pre-tax annual income of all members of a household.

Income

Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.

Median Household Income

Divides the household income distribution into two equal parts; half of all households have incomes above the median and half have incomes below the median.

Civilian Employment

Labor Force

All people classified in the civilian labor force, plus members of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Unemployed

Civilians 16 years old and over who are neither "at work" nor "with a job but not at work" during the reference period, and were actively looking for work during the last four weeks and were available to accept a job.

Occupation

Industry

Occupation

Occupation, Industry and Earnings

Earnings

The sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. The amount of income received regularly before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc.

Employed

Civilians 16 years old and over who are either "at work" or "with a job but not at work." Excludes people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.

Household

A person or group of people living in a housing unit that serves as a primary place of residence.

Income

Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.

Industry

The kind of business conducted by a person’s employing organization.

Interest, Dividend, or Net Rental Income

Interest on savings or bonds, dividends from stockholdings or membership in associations, net income from rental of property to others and receipts from boarders or lodgers, net royalties, and periodic payments from an estate or trust fund.

Marital Status

For people 15 years old and over, married, never married, separated, divorced or widowed.

Occupation

The kind of work the person does on the job.

Public Assistance

General assistance and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).

self-employment

Farm (net money income from the operation of a farm by a person on his or her own account, as an owner, renter, or sharecropper) and nonfarm (net money income receipts from one’s own business, professional enterprise, or partnership) self-employment income.

Social Security

Social security pensions and survivors benefits, permanent disability insurance payments made by the Social Security Administration prior to deductions for medical insurance, and railroad retirement insurance checks from the U.S. government.

Supplemental Security Income

Income from U.S. assistance program administered by the Social Security Administration that guarantees a minimum level of income for needy aged, blind, or disabled individuals.

Wage and Salary

Total money earnings received for work performed as an employee during the calendar year 1999.

People

Civilian Population

Resident population, excluding active-duty military.

Group Quarters Population

All persons not living in households. Includes both institutional (e.g., nursing homes, hospitals, and prisons) and noninstitutional (e.g., college dormitories, military barracks, and workers' dormitories) settings.

Hispanic

Persons who identify themselves as Hispanic/Latino or of Spanish origin. People of Hispanic origin may be of any race.

Household Income

Total pre-tax annual income of all members of a household.

Household Population

All persons living in a household (an occupied housing unit).

Income

Sum of wages, salary, commissions, bonuses, tips, self-employment income, interest, dividends, net rental income, royalty income, income from estates and trusts, Social Security or Railroad Retirement income, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office, retirement, survivor, or disability pensions, and any other sources of income received regularly.

Median Age

Divides the age distribution into two equal parts; half of all persons are older than the median and half are younger.

Median Household Income

Divides the household income distribution into two equal parts; half of all households have incomes above the median and half have incomes below the median.

Single Family - Detached

Place of Work

Earnings

The sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. The amount of income received regularly before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc.

Employed

Civilians 16 years old and over who are either "at work" or "with a job but not at work." Excludes people on active duty in the United States Armed Forces.

Occupation

The kind of work the person does on the job.

Place of Work

Geographic location at which workers carried out their occupational activities.

Poverty

Rent

Housing Unit

A house, apartment, mobile home or trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied as separate living quarters. If vacant, intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.

Occupied Housing Units

Housing units that are occupied by a person or persons who do not have a primary place of residence elsewhere.

Rent - Contract

The monthly rent agreed to or contracted for, regardless of any furnishings, utilities, fees, meals, or services that may be included. For vacant units, it is the monthly rent asked for the rental unit at the time of interview.

Rent - Gross

Contract rent plus the estimated average monthly cost of utilities and fuels if these are paid for by the renter.